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Wallace Lyman Orcutt student notes from Yale University School of Medicine

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 22

Scope and Contents

The notebooks contain Orcutt's notes from medical school courses and laboratories including physiology by Russell Chittenden and Yandell Henderson, pathology, bacteriology, pharmacology, histology, therapeutics by Oliver T. Osborne, and clinics by George Blumer and Wilder Tileston. The histology notes contain illustrations colored in pencil. The bacteriology notes are in an illustrated notebook printed especially for the bacteriology course at Yale. The physiology notes contain drawings and tracings from a kymograph or similar device.

Dates

  • 1908 - 1910

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (2 boxes, containing 12 notebooks)

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/med.ms.0022

Additional Description

Overview

The notebooks contain Orcutt's notes from medical school courses including physiology courses by Russell Chittenden and Yandell Henderson, pathology, bacteriology, pharmacology, histology, therapeutics by Oliver T. Osborne, and clinics by George Blumer and Wilder Tileston. The histology notes contain illustrations colored in pencil. The bacteriology notes are in an illustrated notebook printed especially for the bacteriology course at Yale. The physiology notes contain tracings from a kymograph or similar device.

Biographical / Historical

Wallace Lyman Orcutt was born in Sutton, Vermont in 1883. He graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in 1911, and served as a general practitioner in West Newbury, Massachusetts.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Wallace Lyman Orcutt student notes from Yale University School of Medicine
Status
Completed
Author
Toby A. Appel
Date
2015
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Repository

http://historical.medicine.yale.edu/
Contact:
Yale University
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New Haven CT 06520-8014 US
203-737-1192
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